> more verbose I'd say necessarily verbose. Without injection, it is not immediately apparent that something is dependent on something else (in this case a log

> more verbose I'd say necessarily verbose. Without injection, it is not immediately apparent that something is dependent on something else (in this case a logger) with side effects, which ultimately harms understandability. I expect by "more verbose" the author really meant "in need of more typing". I am not sure optimizing for less typing ever a good tradeoff. And if you can find good reason to optimize for less typing, you're not going to be choosing a structured language in the first place, so...